Contents
The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
- Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
- Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma"
- Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
- Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost"
- Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan"
- Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals"
- Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters"
- Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity"
- Howard Waldrop: "US"
- Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky"
- Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys"
- William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness"
- Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
- Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life"
- Liz Williams: "Voivodoi"
- Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck"
- Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence"
- Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again"
- Tony Daniel: "Grist"
- Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola"
- William Barton: "Down In the Dark"
- Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth"
- Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor"
- Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"
Read more about this topic: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Famous quotes containing the word contents:
“The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Such as boxed
Their feelings properly, complete to tags
A box for dark men and a box for Other
Would often find the contents had been scrambled.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)